Upcoming Events

SCC 2008 Conference. Robert Grossman will be a panelist for the keynote presentation "Business Cloud: Bringing the Power of SOA and Cloud Computing" at the IEEE International Conference on Services Computing, July 8-11, 2008, in Honolulu.

Open Data Group

Open Data provides management consulting, outsourced analytic services, and analytic staffing so that companies and organizations can analyze data and build analytic models that increase revenues, decrease costs, and improve business operations.

Open Data has experience working with customer data, supplier data, third party data, as well as data from internal business processes.

Companies today have an unprecedented opportunity to increase their revenues, decrease costs, mitigate risks, and make more timely decisions through a careful analysis of their data and a skillful deployment of technology. The challenge though is that without a good understanding of the strategic dimensions of data, careful planning, and correct execution, data related projects can consume expenses without improving productivity.

Open Data combines this type of strategic advice with outsourced analytic services and specializes in the following areas:

1. Customer relationship management (CRM) - analyzing customer data to improve revenues and profitability. Open Data builds data marts and uses these to build and deploy customer response models, attrition models, and lifetime value models.
2. Risk management - analyzing data to reduce fraud and to identify other types of risk, including credit risk. Open Data has developed and deployed statistical models that identify fraudulent transactions and events. Open Data has also developed and deployed credit scores.
3. Supply chain systems - analyzing data from suppliers to improve logistics, inventory, and utilization. Open Data has developed algorithms that improve logistics and optimize supply chains.
4. Web services for data - planning and designing distributed, real-time web service based systems for data processing, data analysis, business intelligence, and related areas. A particular specialty of Open Data is the development of open, standards-based system for high volume transaction streams. Open Data also develops distributed systems, including grid-based systems.
5. Providing expert witnesses and technical due diligence - providing experts for independent evaluations of software and technology, litigation support services, competitive analysis, evaluation of strategic fit, and technical trend analysis.
6. Data mining, knowledge management, and corporate data management- extracting knowledge from data and using the knowledge to improve business processes. Open Data develops open standards-based systems for data mining and high performance analytics.
7. Proprietary trading - Open Data develops and deploys proprietary trading technology.